Remarks by Robert MacCrate

Abstract

The remedies for the recovery of confiscated goods outside of the confiscating state have been neither as fully utilized nor as fully developed as precedent, principle, and usefulness would seem to warrant. The possibility of recovering confiscated goods abroad after they have left the confiscating state is not, of course, a universally available response to the expropriation of an alien’s property. But it is available in many situations where the international movement of goods is involved and frequently affords the only means by which the victim of a confiscation can get a determination of rights under principles of international law and prevailing notions of public order.